REVIEWED: GeForce RTX 5060 Ti with ZOTAC GAMING RTX 5060 TI Twin Edge OC

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If you're planning on running at stock, this board will be fine, but that VRM is unimpressive and its heatsink is downright terrible, so I would make sure there's some airflow over it. No worries for a 65W CPU even if it's pegged at its ~90W boost power, but anything higher could make things quite hot. Saying it has "practically [the] same [...] power phase functionality" compared to the PG B550 is simply untrue though. Fewer phases, much lower rated components, and much worse VRM cooling. The PG is a board fully capable of running a 3950X clocked as high as it'll go, this is a strictly run-at-stock board, and in a tightly packed case with limited airflow across the VRMs I wouldn't trust it past an 8-core. You're also losing out on WiFi 6/AX, front USB-C, 2.5GbE, the second m.2, etc. The featureset is absolutely not bad for a budget board, but the price needs to match its features for this to be worth it over the cheaper "premium" B550 offerings.

<blockquote data-quote="Valantar" data-source="post: 204729" data-attributes="member: 5738"><p>If you're planning on running at stock, this board will be fine, but that VRM is unimpressive and its heatsink is downright terrible, so I would make sure there's some airflow over it. No worries for a 65W CPU even if it's pegged at its ~90W boost power, but anything higher could make things quite hot. Saying it has &quot;practically [the] same [...] power phase functionality&quot; compared to the PG B550 is simply untrue though. Fewer phases, much lower rated components, and much worse VRM cooling. The PG is a board fully capable of running a 3950X clocked as high as it'll go, this is a strictly run-at-stock board, and in a tightly packed case with limited airflow across the VRMs I wouldn't trust it past an 8-core. You're also losing out on WiFi 6/AX, front USB-C, 2.5GbE, the second m.2, etc. The featureset is absolutely not bad for a budget board, but the price needs to match its features for this to be worth it over the cheaper &quot;premium&quot; B550 offerings.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Valantar, post: 204729, member: 5738"] If you're planning on running at stock, this board will be fine, but that VRM is unimpressive and its heatsink is downright terrible, so I would make sure there's some airflow over it. No worries for a 65W CPU even if it's pegged at its ~90W boost power, but anything higher could make things quite hot. Saying it has "practically [the] same [...] power phase functionality" compared to the PG B550 is simply untrue though. Fewer phases, much lower rated components, and much worse VRM cooling. The PG is a board fully capable of running a 3950X clocked as high as it'll go, this is a strictly run-at-stock board, and in a tightly packed case with limited airflow across the VRMs I wouldn't trust it past an 8-core. You're also losing out on WiFi 6/AX, front USB-C, 2.5GbE, the second m.2, etc. The featureset is absolutely not bad for a budget board, but the price needs to match its features for this to be worth it over the cheaper "premium" B550 offerings. [/QUOTE]

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